Policing & Society

Papers
(The median citation count of Policing & Society is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Coercive control and risk in intimate partner violence: are Canadian police prepared to assess?23
Crime and deviance in the colleges- elite student excess and sexual abuse22
‘We need to use the entire toolbox’ storytelling in the unarmed Norwegian police19
Involving citizens in urgent missing person cases. An application of the Theory of Planned Behaviour within District Criminal Investigations Teams19
Institutional racism, inclusivity and colour-blindness in the Finnish police19
Law enforcement and public health: partners for community safety and wellbeing17
Public support for expanding DNA databases: police empowerment and the normative and instrumental models of police legitimacy in South Korea16
Police deployment in armed conflict: a typology and multi-case application15
‘Everything seems to be pushed onto the businesses’: stakeholder perceptions of the policing of business crime in Staffordshire, United Kingdom15
Cultural scripts of risk consciousness: police practices in high-risk offender management programs15
Policing suspicion: proactive policing in London, 1780–185015
Police misconduct hearings as legitimacy dialogues15
Queering police legitimacy theories: (dis)trust, context, and visibility14
Correction13
LGBTQ+ officers in US federal service: an examination of workplace inclusion and experiencing sex-based discrimination13
The ‘police progression paradox’? Why are women under-represented across the middle ranks of the police?13
What do we know about police leadership? A review of the current status of police leadership research and practice, with suggestions for future research directions12
Comparative Policing10
Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation10
Stories from small museums10
Protest policing and public perceptions of police. Evidence from a natural experiment in Germany9
Unpacking the Blue Box: structure, control and education in policing9
How Children's Advocacy Centers law enforcement officers cope with work-related stress: impacts and approaches to self-care9
Understanding the reconstruction of police professionalism in the UK8
‘Don’t talk to them!’ on the promise and the pitfalls of liaison policing at COP268
Sex workers’ confidence in the police in one Canadian city under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act8
The potential of automated classification to categorise police force tweeting behaviours: leading the way to large scale analysis8
Misconduct by private security officers and trust in the police: evidence from a natural experiment in Sweden8
Why democratic police reform mostly fails and sometimes succeeds: police reform and low state capacity, authoritarianism and neo-patrimonial politics (in the former Soviet Union)7
Investigating honour-based abuse and other crimes in South Asian communities: the benefits, limitations and impacts of ‘ethnic matching’ and ethnic ‘difference’ of police officers7
Austerity, path dependency and the (re)configuration of policing7
Procedural justice as a reward to the compliant: an ethnography of police–citizen interaction in police custody7
Nexus between police attitudes and responses to domestic and family violence in Australia: does training matter?7
Occupational identity and police officers’ social relations in Ibadan City, Nigeria7
Aiding or enabling? Officer perspectives on harm reduction and support services in an open-air drug market7
Neighbourhood policing6
Social capital transformation and social control: what can we learn from the changing style in communication between religious communities and the police during COVID-196
Chief police officers’ stories of legitimacy6
Sexual and violent police perpetrators: the institutional response to reporting victims6
It's all about time: the influence of behaviour and timelines on suspect disclosure during investigative interviews6
Women-led police stations: reimagining the policing of gender violence in the twenty-first century6
A multi-faceted approach to analyzing historical police logs: a research note6
Polycentric governance, epistocracy and the limits of policing knowledge in preparing for the climate crisis5
Explaining confidence in the police within transitional Hong Kong: the influence of postmaterial values5
Problem-oriented policing in England and Wales: barriers and facilitators5
Safety, privacy, or both: evaluating citizens’ perspectives around artificial intelligence use by police forces5
‘The ones in red:’ people who use drugs’ experiences of the Janus-faced nature of police volunteerism5
Knowledge, practice and professional identity: unthreading the challenges of contemporary police tutoring arrangements in England and Wales5
Guardian versus warrior cops: predicting officers’ support for procedural justice and coercive policing5
Rocking the Boat5
Institutional distrust trap: an analysis of the effect of public distrust in the Nigeria Police Force5
Searching for a needle in a haystack? An exploratory study into the policing of ‘needle spiking’ in the UK5
Public perception of algorithmic policing in a non-democratic context: evidence from Kazakhstan4
The birth of an organisational field: the institutionalisation of civilian crisis response services in the de-tasking era4
Participant accounts of police violence during black lives matter protests in Chicago4
Exposure to citizen incivility, perceived public disrespect, and police stress: evidence from front-line officers in South Korea4
Police sergeants and disaster management during Australia’s Black Summer bushfire crisis4
Police legitimacy and culture revisited through the lens of self-legitimacy4
The irrationalities of rationality in police data processes4
Cultural and symbolic capital in the market for security: police-private security relations in Mexico and the United Kingdom4
‘They stand there looking really bored and pissed off': analysing efficient police resourcing at football matches in England and Wales4
The ‘haves and have-nots’ of social support during police recruitment: why the playing field is anything but level4
Policing is not for me: repelling factors implicated in vocational choice elimination4
‘They call us for everything’: cynicism, rural policing and youth justice4
‘We believe our police are careful not to unduly harass you ladies and gentlemen’ – an examination of the relationship between the police of Cheshire and the motoring public, 1896–19394
Doing gender and professional identity: inclusion and exclusion of female civilians in criminal investigations4
Prevalence and patterns of domestic abuse victimisation in an English police workforce4
A.C.A … All Coppers Are … an analysis of police legitimacy in Spain4
Globalizing local policing: an ethnography of change and concern among Danish detectives4
Attitudes and views regarding law enforcement activity at large outdoor raves in Israel: a cross-sectional survey4
The inevitable fallibility of policing4
The everyday reality of private security work in Sweden: negotiations at the front line of public order maintenance4
Apathy, resistance, and disengagement: A social media analysis exploring anti-police sentiment through motivational postures3
Enhancing missing persons search strategies through technological touchpoints3
Globalisation and policing in Tuvalu: perspectives on negotiating changing power structures3
The analysis of excessive disciplinary action and the effect of disciplinary rationalization policy: an empirical analysis of the results of disciplinary appeals reviews for police officers3
Urban disorder in democratic transitions: Ukraine’s municipal policing debates in comparative perspective3
Intersectional injustices: police responses to migrant, Black and minoritised victim-survivors of rape and other sexual offences in England and Wales3
Visible policing: uniforms and the (re)construction of police occupational identity3
Improving police investigation of intimate partner sexual violence: challenges and opportunities3
The ruling from the field stands? Shedding light on officers’ interpretations of body-worn cameras footage3
Examining police perceptions of challenges in policing adolescents: a comparative analysis across rank, role, and tenure3
Community-based policing of natural disasters in Vietnam: analysing the ‘four-on-the-spot’ model3
Detectives and technological frames: integrating technology and social media into everyday work3
Impression management following investigation and prosecution scandal in Norwegian police: a review of press releases3
Health harms, climate harms and the regenerative potential of policing3
Revisiting the demeanour effect: a video-observational analysis of encounters between law enforcement officers and citizens in Amsterdam3
Procedural justice, neighbourhood context, and domestic violence reporting intention among subgroups of immigrants3
Colonial policing practices in Queensland and their contemporary legacies3
Policing child sexual exploitation and abuse cases: a qualitative PRIORITY study of the challenges faced by law enforcement officers in Germany, Portugal, and Sweden3
Institutions, political attitudes or personal values? A multilevel investigation into the origins of police legitimacy in Europe3
Rural decline and policing of cannabis legalisation in Washington3
Repeat or chronic?: examining police data accuracy across the ‘history’ classifications of missing person cases3
Forgotten, outdated, and absent: PSNI officer’s training, experiences, and confidence with Autism3
A crisis of legitimacy?: The importance of procedural justice in frontline private security provision3
Algorithmic policing accountability: eight sociotechnical challenges2
‘Strands in a cable’: effective investigator decision-making using forensic identification evidence in volume crime investigations2
Legitimacy and cooperation with the police: examining empirical relationship using data from Africa2
From evasion to retaliation: exploring the motivations behind assaults on police2
An ethnographic multi-order and notice analysis of the policing practices associated with civil preventive orders and notices2
Better safe than sorry? Police officers’ identification of and responses to vulnerable crime victims2
Collaboration, risk and ‘just’ outcomes: challenges and opportunities in policing HBA2
Police department websites and digital language accessibility: a platform for achieving effective communication between limited English proficient communities and the police2
(Post-)crisis policing, public health and private security: the COVID-19 pandemic and the private security sector2
‘A genuine one usually sticks out a mile’: policing coercive control in England and Wales2
Values? Camera? Action! An ethnography of an AI camera system used by the Netherlands Police2
Move-on powers and practices of social exclusion: an examination of governance2
A complete turnaround: police and gay men 1950–20102
Policing in a relational state: the case of sorcery accusation-related violence in Papua New Guinea2
Normalisation of crisis communication in post-crisis times: examining the Facebook page of Hong Kong police force during and after radical protests2
Policing legitimacy: social media, scandal and sexual citizenship2
‘Giving the right service to different people’: revisiting police legitimacy in the Covid-19 era2
Correction2
Investigative private policing beyond the police: an exploratory study2
Dare to share: information and intelligence sharing within the UK’s anti-money laundering regime2
Algorithmic policing: an exploratory study of the algorithmically mediated construction of individual risk in a UK police force2
Factors associated with encounter-specific police procedural justice perceptions among Dutch detainees2
Policing Nigerian elections: violence, institutional weaknesses and remedial trajectories2
Correction2
Restoring trust in Mexico’s police: do officer gender and work experience matter?2
Body-worn camera videos and public perceptions of police: an experiment on positive video exposure and community-police relations2
The Blue-Coat Rebellion, the police of Galashiels have struck: the Inspector of Constabulary and a small Scottish Burgh2
r/ProtectandServe: an exploration of the virtual canteen culture regarding police misconduct2
Policing futures: transforming the evidence-based policing paradigm through interdisciplinarity and epistemological anarchism2
Turning it on and off: a behavioural and situational comparison of non-fatal violence perpetrated by on- versus off-duty police officers2
Post-election riots and the dilemmas of democratic policing: recent experience in the United States and Brazil2
Advancing our understanding of immigrants’ trust in police: the role of ethnicity, immigrant generational status and measurement1
Why the police should be trained by Black people1
Race and support for police use of force: findings from the UK1
Policing suicide: investigative officers’ views on criminalisation and enforcement of anti-suicide laws1
Politicians and police in the face of democratic change in Chile and Colombia1
Foreword, Comparative Policing Review1
Getting back to the state: policing the Covid-19 pandemic1
Public support for empowering police during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence from London1
‘No one wants to end up on YouTube’: sousveillance and ‘cop-baiting’ in Canadian policing1
Reforming police education in Iceland: a comparative analysis of students’ competence valuations before and after the transition to university education1
Adaptive policing for a climate crisis1
From the street corner to call centre: changes in the characteristics of mental health-related calls for service received by police1
Announcement1
Policing technology-facilitated abuse1
Therapeutic alignments: examining police and public health/harm reduction partnerships1
The coproduction work of healthcare professionals in police custody: destabilising the care-custody paradox1
Can harm be predicted? On the development and validation of a statistical model for predicting harm in missing person incidents1
Introduction1
Predict and surveil: data, discretion, and the future of policing1
United Kingdom-European Union policing and law enforcement cooperation in the post-Brexit era1
Attempts to teach ethics to police leaders and managers at the Police College: a lesson from history1
The politics of police governance: Scottish police reform, localism and epistocracy1
The official history of criminal justice in England and Wales: Volume V: policing post-war Britain: plus ça change1
Policing rape: the way forward1
Police, non-state actors, and political legitimacy in Central America1
Unmasking police accountability: responses to Australian First Nations peoples’ deaths in police custody1
The ‘civilizing effect’ and ‘deterrence spectrum’ revisited: results of a national study of body-worn cameras on fatal police force1
Coercive rehabilitation and therapeutic control: how the police navigate the penal-welfare nexus in Chinese drug governance1
Police victims of domestic abuse: barriers to reporting victimisation1
Policemen, COVID-19, and police culture: navigating the pandemic with colleagues, the public, and family1
Drawing a line: boundary work in victim support police work1
Police officers as filmmakers: the cinematography of body worn cameras1
Doing discretion – authority, ambiguity and control in German traffic stops1
I was having an anxiety attack and they pepper sprayed me' : police apprehension in mental health contexts in Australia1
Does prior misconduct predict drug use by police?1
Exploring the relationship between shared identity and interoperability: a mixed methods analysis of discussion-based multi-agency emergency response exercises1
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